Border Wall

In the latest offer to Congress to get his border wall funded, Trump added what he no doubt believes is a "sweetener" to help Democrats end the government shutdown. That sweetener, however, is an explicit acknowledgment that the he deliberately created a humanitarian crisis on ...read more

As the government shutdown grinds on, Trump's survival in the White House becomes ever more precarious. Democrats and Republicans are locked in a deadly battle with each side making bold demands and refusing to cede ground. Nancy Pelosi, the new Speaker of the House, has ...read more

As the stock market tumbles, the Mueller probe finale looms, and the reality of a Democratic controlled House sets in, Donald Trump is finding himself in an increasingly isolated political position. Having recklessly shut down the federal government over his inability to secure ...read more

In a truly astonishing series of events this week, the Trump White House appears to be locked in a dangerous free fall that threatens to destabilize not just the country, but the entire planet too. After his Defense Secretary quit in horror over his decision to abruptly pulled ...read more

Few people in the Trump Administration are as loathsome as Stephen Miller, or, as Pod Save America's Jon Lovett calls him, "the C+ Santa Monica fascist." With the exception of Trump himself, he is more responsible than anyone else for crafting the immigration policies that have ...read more

In his latest book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Stephen Greenblatt analyzes the Bard's most power-hungry characters. The book never mentions Donald Trump by name, but it is easy to see the parallels between our president and the characters ...read more

BECOME A MEMBER!

In a meeting that probably could have gone better, Donald Trump, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi got into an argument in the Oval Office with Trump repeatedly raising his voice. Mike Pence was also present but apparently remained silent the entire time: President Trump, House ...read more

With the midterms only five months away, Republicans around the country are in full panic mode after the Trump administration decided locking children up in cages and separating them from their parents was a good political move. House and Senate Republicans are now being forced ...read more

Melania Trump married a scumbag and has stood by him through some of the most appalling scandals in American political history. She is no saint, and bears at least some responsibility for the actions of her husband. But she appears to at least have a beating heart, and used what ...read more